A Dallas Police officer was arrested in Austin on April 30 on a charge of driving while intoxicated, according to an Austin Police arrest affidavit.
According to Austin Police, just before 2 a.m. on April 30, an APD officer was driving on the North Mopac Expressway and saw a 2008 Infiniti G35 “jerk back and forth in its lane of traffic as if the driver was jerking the wheel back and forth.”
APD said the driver, later identified as Silvestre Hernandez, Jr., changed lanes without signaling multiple times, drifted out of its lane on two occasions and was driving 81 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone.
When police pulled the car over, Hernandez, Jr. admitted to having a 16 oz. Lonestar around 90 minutes before he was stopped, the arrest affidavit said. Hernandez consented to a breath test and blew a 0.118, over the legal limit of 0.08 at 2:05 a.m. An intoxilyzer was also given and Hernandez recorded a .098 and .096 almost an hour later.
Hernandez, a Dallas Police officer, was charged with a class B misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated and given a bail of $2,000.
